Sacramento daily record-union., 1887-08-10

record as to honesty and integrity during
| the time have conducted this office.
While believe l have the confidence of
the public, and do not need to rise in self
defense, still as my silence may be misun-
derstood by some, desire to meet and de-
nounce as false in every word and particu-
lar, each and every statement or insinuation
that impugns in the slightest degree my
honesty or official conduct as Chief of the
Fire Department.
Among the reports that have been ma
liciously started against me by those who
wish to dispossess me of the Office which /
hold, is that have made many thousands
OF dollars by stealings out of the office.
Two methods mentioned, in which they
would have the public believe that have
accomplished this. is by crookedness con-
cerning the purchase of horse feed and re-
ceiving percentage out of bills paid for sup
plies, salaries, etc.
1t is stated, and by parties whose posi-
tions are expected TO give full and unques-
toned Endorsement to the false words that
under my administration the horse feed
costs the city $50 per month for each horse
employed in the Fire Department. With
out asking the public to take my word TO
utterly refute this base and malicious false
hood, | will simply call attention to the
published annual reports of the Board of
Fire Commissioners. These will show that
tor the year ending March 81, 1885. the
total cost for horse feed was $917 ~, or
81 "a for each horse per month For the
year ending March 81, 1856, the amount
was 81 ,O61 98, or IS OF per horse per month.
For the year ending March 81, 1887, and
signed by all the present Commissioners.
and the Secretary of the Board, the amount
was 81 131 SO, which would make the
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horse per month. Owing to the
fact however, that the Department
had new additional storage room for hav
this year; there was an extra supply of not
less than twenty-five tons on hand at the
time this report was made, and which
has lasted until the present time, and will
be sufficient for the Department until Sep
tember. If this surplus of twenty five tons
which was on hand more than usual, at
the beginning of the present fiscal year, be
deducted, it will leave the total cost of feed
for the last fiscal year at 1881 SO. This, for
the eleven horses in use in the Fire Depart
ment during the year, will show a cost of
only S6 6S for each horse per month.
venture TO say that among the citizens
OF Sacramento who keep horses, not many
OF them who have to purchase all the feed |
used, do SO at as small an expense as here
shown, and | am entirely willing to have
my integrity and my official acts. as they
bear upon the interests and welfare of the |
people of the city, judged by this record, |
which the malicious charges of unscrupu-
lous place-hunters have brought out.
AS to the statements or insinuations that
have received and made money from |
percentages out of bills for supplies, sal |
aries, or of any other kind, it would seem
unnecessary for me to enter my denial, as |
the manner in which all expenditures of |
the department are made and disbursed |
must be accepted as precluding any such
opportunity. No bill is ever paid until it |
has been examined and passed upon by the |
Board of Fire Commissioners, and the re-
ceipts are now on file of every bill that has |
been paid since l was elected Chief En-
gineer, showing and acknowledging the |
exact amount disbursed.
In addition to this, will say that, out
side of my regular salary and any allow
ances made by the Board, 1 nerer receiued |
one cent, nor any amount auhdtsoerer, as per- |
centdge or othert0ise neither direct nor indirect
from any bill or amount paid from the depart
ment funds, and defy any person, liring or
dead, to come torlrard and Sho,c to the con-
trdry. c. SULLIVAN.
Chief Enpinaer